Airdate: Newstopia

Simply described as, “A new comedy series by Shaun Micallef who stars as anchorman in this satirical half hour news bulletin,” it will screen at 10pm on Wednesday nights.

This effectively means Wednesday nights are about to heat up. Not only do we have The Chaser and Summer Heights High but Prison Breakand Damages are also coming on Wednesdays. And that’s without any sign of Heroes and House (both yet to be confirmed).

Newstopia will hopefully be Micallef’s own take on current events a la Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher ( we assume!). Mick Molloy might want to tune in to this too. Just an idea.

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Cannily scheduled right after Chaser on ABC and obviously relying on faith in ABC viewers’ intelligence (i.e. an ability to go “that show’s over, now over to SBS for Micallef”, rather than the Oztam concept of “can’t… change…. channel!”)

I had no idea this was in the works; it’ll be great to see Micallef properly back on TV, this time without the pressure of being a Nine “personality”…